Trying to create a MonoGame Windows 7 desktop project

Question

I have Visual Studio 2012 open. In the Templates > Visual C# > Windows, I currently do not see a Monogame template. Could someone give me some pointers? I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. In the Solution Explorer I see the following 3 projects...

• Lidgren.Network.Windows

• MonoGame.Framework.Content.Pipeline.Windows

• MonoGame.Framework.Windows

Isn't there supposed to be a MonoGame project template that should be selectable to start off my project? Does MonoGame require XNA to be installed?

Basically I'm trying to do a helloworld. :)

Answer 1

From your description it sounds like you are viewing the source to MonoGame. You should install MonoGame using the installer, that will put the MonoGame project templates in the right location for Visual Studio to locate them.